Boot Camp won't install on my mac

Now I understand, Go to Applications, Utilities, Boot Camp. So I try and run boot camp assistant, Click I have the installation cd and hit continue.Then I go to the WIndow where it shows me how much Space you want for windows. And I click around 60 gigs. I hit Partition.Status: Partitioning Disc. BOOT CAMP ASSISTANT: THE DISC CANNOT BE PARTITIONED BECAUSE SOME FILES CANNOT BE REMOVED: Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again.SO I go to disk utilitiy and click on my HD, Click on Partition. Format is MAC OS Extended ( Journaled ) Size 249 GB.  Now I am trying to partition the disc in disc utility under my Hard drive, Partition, Click how much room I want but still get an error:PARTITION FAILED. COULD NOT MODIFY PARTITION MAP BECAUSE FILE SYSTEM VERIFICATION FAILED...What am I doing wrong here? I Verified disk permissions and it went fine..but still I cant get boot camp to instal

BAD message. common also. Misleading definitely.
Zap PRAM
Repair Permissions
Verify the drive
Safe Boot
Try again.
If that does not work boot in safe mode or DVD and then shrink the parittion by 70GB.
Then take it back to full length.
That should fix or get around it.
Otherwise if those do not THEN you need to take your backup and boot from another device, erase and restore.
I prefer Carbon Copy Cloner instead of TimeMachine.
How to clone your system:
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner

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